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Gregg Bell joined The News Tribune in July 2014. Bell had been the director of writing for the University of Washington's athletic department for four years. He was the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press from 2005-10, covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season and beyond. He's also been The Sacramento Bee's beat writer on the Oakland Athletics and Raiders. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and a 2000 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

I played in a Pop Warner Championship game in LeBard Stadium, when it was still called Pirate Stadium…. probably before most of your readers were born. I may be the only one who cares in the Pacific Northwest.

Thanks Blocis, I still like our players to come from Mountain/Pacific time zones, The Pacific Islands or, CFL . We can all drull over the great players from ACC/SEC , but do THEY drull over playing in Seattle!? Of this five I’d take Bjorn Werner of FSU.
Just my two cents.
Have a nice Sunday.

Well it’s been a week and I suppose I’ve finally reached stage 7. Seeing as how SF and ATL both can’t lose today I guess I’ll pull for ATL as I can’t stand Harbaugh and the whiners. For me looking ahead a name to watch is Shariff Floyd he’s a D tackle who played for Dan Quinn at Florida who’s coming out in the draft. Also Matt Elam could be another guy who played SS for Quinn. He’s undersized for SS at 5′ 10” and would probably require Chancellor to move to WS LB but we have had success drafting undersized players of late.

Although I’m sure they will listen to offers for Flynn there is no reason to trade him. He’s signed for guaranteed money next year and I see him as a quality BU QB. We were lucky this year to avoid significant injury but will we next year? Probably not which is another reason for being pissed we didn’t win last week. We are as good as any team playing today and a part of that is we have developed quality depth. Our most significant need this off season is upgrading our pass rush if trading Flynn gets that done then so be it otherwise I hang onto him for another year and draft a prospect to take that job.

I could see a scenario where we only draft 4 players this year. Trading our 10 picks to move up/down and grab need guys we like.

The way this team drafts in the later rounds, ( so far )I would almost rather have a bunch of six and seventh round picks for our second rounder. Especially if there isn’t any decent pass rushers or WRs left.

BobbyK – thats not what anyone is suggesting – more like a 3rd and 5th to move up in the 3rd.

I also believe we have some depth guys here and there that MAY be interesting to other guys that we could use like the way we got Washington. trade down and get a lower pick and a player, but this year in reverse

We always seem to be the team willing to move down in a round (3) to get the extra pick later. I’m not sure why all of a sudden the trend would change. There are still holes that we have to fill on the depth chart (not as much for starters anymore – thank goodness). Just my opinion.

I’m actually happy that Bevell is coming back for the sake of Wilson but I have a feeling that watching paint dry would be more exciting than talking with him (if we couldn’t talk about the Hawks). With that being said, Mr. Happy is our charasmatic leader, so the fact that Quinn may be more like Bevell doesn’t bother me as much.

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